The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-04
Weekly Market Review.
VERMONT PRODUCE,

MoNTPELIER.-Th butter market is weak
and receipts are very large. Nice fresh but
ter sells for 10 to l8c per ID; cheese, 16c per
ID; eggs, 12c per dozen; potatoes, 45c per
bushel; beef, 3 to &c per 10; pork, &c per lb
lamb Ale per ID; mutton, % to &c per ID
sugar, 3 to &c per lb; syrup, 80 to Coo per
gallon.
WATERFOWL AND BRIGHTON
LIVE STOCK.
CATTLE.-The receipts were 2,O59 head
The market was fairly good, Northern sell
ing at to &c and fancy lots at to 7bc per
pound. There was fair movement to
trade. G.. II. Merrill sold three hefer
springers at S25 each and five new-milch
cows at $50 each; f. II. Coolidge & Son,
seven mich cows at S43 and seven others
at $50 each n. Trafton, one pair of six
year-old working oxen, weighing 5000 lbs,
at $11S, and a pair of handy two-year-old
steers, grthing six feet and seven inches
and weighing 1850 lbs, at S130 for the pair
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The receipts were
1854 head. The demand was fair at q to
5ic for sheep and to &c for lambs.
SwINE.-The receipts were 1864 head
The market was steady, Northern dressed
selling at to Tic and Western live at to
6tc per pound.
VEALs.-Receipts, 3,131 head. The demand
was fair, prices ranging from 2 to SIC per
pound.
POULTRY There were only few hum
bred pounds on the market. Prices ranged
at 10 to 12c per pound, live weight
HIDES, TALLow ETC.-We quote Brighton
hides at 69 to &c and country lots at 6 TO 6Jc
per Id; calf-skins, &c per Id; pelts, S1.35 to
S1.75 each; Brighton tallow, % to Sc, and
country lots at Il to &c per pound.
BOSTON COUNTRY PRODUCE.
EGGs.-Freshly laid stock is in good de-
mand, Vermont and New York selling at
135 to Ia &c and choice Western at lac per
dozen.
CHEEsE.--The market is nearly bare of
fine old cheese. The small sales reported
are at about 16c There are no offerings
OF new full cream as yet. Extra YER
mont sells at 10 to 15lc, good to choice at IA
to 14bc, common at to 12c and extra sage
at IL to 15c per pound.
BUTTER Fine old butter is about out of
the market. There is only moderate sum-
ply of new that is suitable for the best
trade. Receipts of imitation creamery and
ladle-packed continue light and the market
is steady for choice lots at quotations.
Extra trunk and box butter are in steady
demand. Extra Northern creamery sells
at % to 24c, extra Western creamery at "a
to 25c, choice do at 20 to 24c, the finest
Franklin county dairy at % to &c, good
to choice do at Is to 22c, choice Northern
dairy at Is to 21c and fair to good do at ~
to 15c per pound.
THE WOOL MARKET.
THE market is quiet rather than dull for
in spite of the small volume of sales there
is fair inquiry, with an absence of great
depression. There has been considerable
inquiry for fine ieeces, combing, delane
and fine Australian. The rest of the bust
ness is proportionately divided among the
other grades. The goods market is exceed
ingly dull. There has been but little in
quiry for any kind of cloths for mems wear
and jobbers of miscellaneous wooden fabrics
report an exceedingly quiet week Ohio Y
sells at 30 to 34c, Ohio X at 81 to 32Jc Michi-
gan No. 1 at 80 to 36c, Maine supers at
43 to Acc and extra Western supers at
80 to 33c per pound.
THE LUMBER TRADE.
THE demand for Eastern lumber has been
quite good, if anything a little better than
last week. Building is starting in well and
the outlook is promising. The receipts are
good and as the ice is now out, or coming
out, of the Maine rivers, the mills will soon
all be busy. Rough hemlock boards sell at
$1,000 to $1,000 and planed do at S11OO
to $3.50; the best clear spruce floor boards
at $3.50 to $500, coarse at $500 and
| refuse at $500 to $500; one-inch box
boards at $1,000 and seven-eghths do at
S11.OO: Eastern sawed cedar shingles at
S340 to $362l, clear do at $500 to S3.125, the
best shaved shingles at S5.25, other grades
at S3.25 to S475 and No. spruce at 81. 25 to
S1.50; extra four-foot spruce clapboards at
S27 90 to 500, do clear at S25 to 1927 90 and
other grades at S12 to S21 00 pine and spruce
laths at $500 to S2.12l; the best spruce
undertioors at $1,000 and other grades at
$3.50 to $500